Succinctly, baby Jesus is crying

Tuesday was a bad day for the environment. Wednesday was a bad day for immigrants. And today? Trump’s in Philly, at a GOP retreat. Might that take his attention from destroying the planet and ruining people’s lives?

Here’s the drama behind the Pope’s environmental encylical

Charles Redfern (Hey! I know that guy!) has written a piece for Huffington Post that examines what went on behind the scenes of Pope Francis’ (leaked already) encyclical letter on the environment. For all we may want to applaud the Pope as setting new standards for forward-thinking, Chuck writes: Our craving for dramatic arcs clouds …

Why can’t this gas pipeline get a little attention?

At a hearing last night in Glastonbury, Conn., residents voiced their concern that an expanded gas pipeline planned through the state would have a far-reaching and dangerous impact on the state’s environment. You can read more about the Atlantic Bridge Project from the company responsible for it — Spectra Energy — here. You can read …

The insurance industry gets climate change

So why can’t the politicians? And thanks, DickG., for the link.

Those climate change deniers have done a heckuva job.

See what Bill McKibben has to say about that at TomDispatch.com. McKibben writes: Deprived of actual publishing scientists to work with, they’ve relied on a small troupe of vaudeville performers, featuring them endlessly on their websites. Lord Christopher Monckton, for instance, an English peer (who has been officially warned by the House of Lords to …